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GOP Moderate Chafee Is a Rebel
With Clout to Hurt Bush's Agenda

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Shailagh Murray Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated April 16, 2001 12:01 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- Lincoln Chafee was 11 years old when his dad took him to the 1964 Republican convention. There, the New England lad discovered a new side of the Republican Party: the conservative Barry Goldwater delegates who booed New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller off the stage.

"The fervency," remembers Mr. Chafee, a proud moderate like his father, the late Sen. John Chafee. "I'd never seen anything like it."